This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet!
Autostraddle posted
- Precious and Adored: Reading Victorian Love Letters, Writing Queer History
- 15 New LGBT Books to Make Your Summer Hot Hot Hot
- The Perfect Queer Poem: For When it Doesn’t Matter if You Want to Be Her or F*ck Her
- The Perfect Queer Poem: For Facing Our Enemies
Lambda Literary posted New Books in June for Your Pride Month Reading List.
LGBTQ@NYPL posted
- LGBTQ Historical Fiction, 20 Years Before Stonewall
- Beyond Coming Out: Fantastic Books with LGBT+ Characters
- A Beginner’s Guide to LGBTQ+ Manga
LGBTQ Reads posted
- TBRainbow Alert: Queer YA/NA Rom-Coms
- TBRainbow Alert: YA Starring QPoC, Part 2
- TBRainbow Alert: Graphic Novels
Pride posted 21 Inspiring LGBTQ-Themed Children’s Books.
Women and Words updated their Hot off the Press and Coming Attractions.
Dahlia Adler posted “14 YA Authors on the Queer Books That Changed Their Lives” at Barnes & Noble.
Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things, was interviewed at Bustle.
Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun and Patsy, was interviewed at Nylon.
Malinda Lo was interviewed about her novel Ash by Nina LaCour at Bustle.
Niamh Murphy posted 8 Great Ways to Get Free And Discounted Lesbian eBooks Sent to You!
Barbara Smith wrote “Why I Left the Mainstream Queer Rights Movement” at the New York Times.
Chain Reactions by Lynn Ames was reviewed at Lambda Literary.
A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernández was reviewed at The Black Lesbian Literary Collective.
Healing/Heeling by Sassafras Lowrey was reviewed at Gertrude Press.
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi was reviewed at Rich in Color.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell was reviewed at Okazu.
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw was reviewed at Okazu.
Pride month brought a deluge of queer book content from the rest of the internet, so I thought I’d collect it all here:
- “The Bookshop: The story of Australia’s oldest LGBT bookstore” was posted at BBC News.
- “12 books by Canadian LGBTQ writers to read during Pride Month” was posted at CBC.
- “How Stonewall Liberated Young Adult Literature” was posted at Electric Lit.
- “Reading the Rainbow: A Pride Reading List” was reviewed at LARB.
- “LGBTQIA+ Graphic Novels for Young Readers” was posted at School Library Journal.
- “The First Lesbian Porn, a Japanese “Dyketionary,” and 9 Other Revealing Artifacts from the Lesbian Herstory Archives” was posted at Vice.
- “Young Adult Books About Queer Girls Are On The Rise, But There’s Still So Much To Be Done” was posted at Bustle.
- “The lasting importance of Haunting of Hill House’s Theodora” was posted at SYFY Wire.
- “9 LGBT Book Blogs That Will Keep You Up To Date With Your Favorite Authors” was posted at Women.com.
- “59 Children’s Books That Celebrate Pride” was posted at No Time for Flash Cards.
- “A gay first lady? Yes, we’ve already had one, and here are her love letters.” (about Rose Cleveland) was posted at The Washington Post.
- “Letters reveal a U.S. First Lady’s 20-year-long lesbian affair: ‘You are mine, and I am yours, and we are one, and our lives are one henceforth’,” also about Rosa Cleveland, was posted at NY Daily News.
- “9 LGBQT+ figureheads on their favourite queer literature” was posted at Vogue Australia.
- “26 Amazing Books by LGBTQ+ Authors You Should Add to Your Bookshelf” was posted at Mental Floss.
- “Our Favorite LGBTQ+ Reads of the Past Year” was posted at Tor.
- “This American Maverick Ruled the Lesbian Literary Scene of Paris” was posted at OZY.
- “Lambda Literary and the Ongoing Recognition of Comics” was posted at The Comics Journal.
- “15 Books With Bi Main Characters To Read This Pride Month” was posted at Bustle.
- “Why LGBTQ bookstores, such as Philadelphia’s Giovanni’s Room, are a lifeline for queer teens” was posted at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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